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Belonging, or pertaining, to Megara, a city of ancient Greece. Megarian, or Megaric, school, a school of philosophy established at Megara, after the death of Socrates, by his disciples, and remarkable for its logical subtlety.

The quahog.

A mercenary. [Obs.]

A fever accompanied by an eruption of small, isolated, red pimples, resembling a millet seed in form or size; miliary fever.

Consisting of a thousand years; of or pertaining to the millennium, or to the Millenarians.

The doctrine of Millenarians.

Of or pertaining to miscellanies. Shaftesbury. -- n.

The Infusoria.

An order of lamellibranchs having but one muscle for closing the shell, as the oyster.

Of or pertaining to the Monomya. -- n.

A division of bivalve mollusks of which the common clam (Mya) is the type.

An advocate of the doctrine of philosophical necessity; a nacessitarian.

The doctrine of philosophical necessity; necessitarianism. Hixley.

things, especially as applied to the actings or choices of the will; -- opposed to libertarian.

The doctrine of philosophical necessity; the doctrine that results follow by invariable sequence from causes, and esp. that the will is not free, but that human actions and choices result inevitably from motives; deteminism. M. Arnold.

Of or pertaining to the nectary of a plant.

One of a group of philologists who apply phonetic laws more widely and strictly than was formerly done, and who maintain that these laws admit of no real exceptions. --Ne`o*gram*mat"ic*al (#), a.

A person ninety years old.

Of or pertaining to a notary; done or taken by a notary; as, a notarial seal; notarial evidence or attestation.

In a notarial manner.